Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was on my way home from a shoot, probably 1989, and I decided to stop at Jordan Marsh (now Macys). I didn't want to leave my Hasselblad in my car, so I brought it in with me. I noticed one, then two...then three security guards following us around. When I was riding the escalator, I lifted the camera up to my face to look through the viewfinder at the mirrored wall across the way...which looked kind of cool...and these guys went nutty! They ran up to me, leaping over people and pushing them out of the way...grabbed me and tried to take the camera away from me, which they were unsuccessful at doing. Note, there was no film in the camera, nor had I even pushed the shutter release (nor could I, the darkslide was in place), and there was certainly nothing posted that said "no cameras". Eventually, I picked up what it was I stopped by to pick up (a believe it was a suit that I already paid for some time ago, and it was now back from being tailored) and left the store... The really stoopid part of this was I had done work for Jordan Marsh, and some of my work was in fact in the store at that time! Austin > Years ago I was escorted out of a mall because I had a camera in > my hand. I was standing in front of Sak's with a Leica. What > could be wrong with that? I guess I needed permission before > photographing anything. > > DaveR > > >>It's kind of frightening. At first I thought this was > yet-another-hoax ... > but I found it on Yahoo's collection of AP articles. Sheesh ... - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html